It Happened in Brooklyn
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Movie Reviews of It Happened in Brooklyn
Movie Review: SINATRA WAS A VERY FINE ACTOR, NO KIDDING
Summary: 4 Stars
There is a duke of Dunstable at the beginning of the film; as he is a nice duke, it is not a P.G. Wodehouse story. Not a bad screenplay by Isobel Lennart: the character of Sinatra is well handled, but it is a MGM pix vith the MGM vices: by the book editing, conservative cinematography (by the gifted ROBERT PLANCK!), story line overdeveloped so the film slows when Lawford arrives in Brooklyn and rates only two or three stars.
MGM's obsession with prestige overloads the film with TWO opera main arias: the Mozart one does not serve Sinatra, but Grayson is very good.
Our own Delibes piece is supposed to be sung in french: I really couldn't understand what Grayson was singing. Any way it is an opera with an extravagant libretto and the aria is ridiculous, sung by anybody, even Joan Sutherland or Natalie Dessay. MGM couldn't quit: we have long Beethoven pieces (played beautifully by a 17 years old unseen André Previn) It is a 1946 movie! That kind of old fashioned boring silliness had nothing to do with motion pictures. Gay patrons were not recognised by the industry, so we don't have a prestige scene: Sinatra as a swan or the hunter in SWAN LAKE.
Sinatra is quite good and has nice Cahn-Styne songs.The song "Brooklyn bridge" is sung on the bridge, without process photography. Not ON THE TOWN but very pleasant.Durante does not do unsanitary things with the scenery and is very good. The friendship with the Sinatra character is very nice. Young people are not shown in a derogatory manner. Grayson looks very young and charming. Too bad she had so few parts. Gloria Grahame looks weird as an army lieutenant nurse.
The great GEORGE SIDNEY should have directed the picture. RICHARD WHORF directed just a few pictures. CHAMPAGNE FOR CAESAR (available in DVD) is a winner. TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY was one of the most boring pictures ever made. You can see Sinatra, in some kind of super white tuxedo, sing "Ol' man river" The line "I sweat..." is a riot. Maybe I had fallen asleep and was having a bad dream.(Grayson was in the SHOWBOAT extracts too)
Movie Review: Fun entertainment
Summary: 4 Stars
This is light hearted, simple, and entertaining. Not Oscar worthy, but an extremely enjoyable old movie. You can't go wrong with the music of Frank Sinatra and the ever exuberant Jimmy Durante. Of course, the beautiful Kathryn Grayson isn't bad either!Movie Review: Jack McGowan, not JPMcGowan
Summary: 2 Stars
Common error, and it is true that J.P. McGowan (1880-1952) was Jack to his friends. As J.P., he had over 500 film credits in a forty-year career, only one as "Jack". Primarily, he was not a writer, and this film was not in his vigorous, actionful genre at all. Nor did he ever work for M-G-M. From 1940 he is known only as the forceful secretary of the Screen Directors Guild.
On the other hand, the writer usually credited as Jack McGowan did write light material, did work for M-G-M -- and was credited for this froth.
Movie Review: It Happened In Brooklyn
Summary: 1 Stars
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